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Hai•duk
(hī′dŏŏk),USA pronunciation n.
- World Historyone of a class of mercenary soldiers in 16th-century Hungary.
- World Historyan outlaw who engaged in brigandage and irregular warfare against the Turks in the Slavic regions of the Ottoman Empire.
- a male servant or attendant dressed in semimilitary Hungarian costume.
- Hungarian hajdúk, plural of hajdú
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